President Obama and the first family walk to Easter Sunday worship - Rev. Leon gets righteous

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President Obama and the first family walk to Easter Sunday worship at Saint John’s Church Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House


WaPo:

The Obamas worshipped at St. John’s on Easter in 2009, and they have visited the Episcopal congregation, which is led by the Rev. Luis Leon, numerous times, including last year.

According to a press pool report of Leon’s sermon, the minister criticized what he called ”the captains of the religious right.”

People often want things to go back to the way things used to be, before “work got difficult and faith got confused, and life got more confusing,” Leon said, according to the pool report.

“You cannot go back,” Leon said, citing the words of Jesus. “It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back ... for blacks to be back in the back of the bus ... for women to be back in the kitchen ... for immigrants to be back on their side of the border.”

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